OPINION – Blair, IraqDocuments released this week reveal panic at the heart of Blair’s government in the run up to the Iraq war. This revelation confirms one of the things what we in the anti-war movement have been arguing ever since the invasion of Iraq. The huge protests in the run up to the Iraq war nearly toppled Blair and ended British participation in the disastrous invasion of Iraq. There is simply no way all this would have happened without the mass protests and the way those protests have shaped public opinion. Chris Nineham is vice chair of Stop the War and author of The People versus Tony Blair: politics, the media and the anti-war movement.